WC purchases land in effort to end housing dispute

Westchester County took a step Friday to end an ongoing affordable housing dispute.

Since 2014, a 28-unit development called Chappaqua Station had been scheduled to be built on a 1/3-acre piece of land. It would have helped Westchester meet its mandated federal affordable housing quota of 450 homes that year.

The plans stalled, the county missed its quota and the matter has been tied up in the court system ever since.

The county purchased the land for $1.2 million and is preparing to pass it on to the project's developers.